Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

The help text produced by autoconf is part specific to our scripts and 
part is standard autoconf stuff. The variable section is part of the 
standard help. It's bad that the script isn't behaving as the help text 
suggests and we should try to fix that if possible. We definitely need 
to review the documentation.

We have avoided letting environment variables affect configure. The 
reason is reproducibility, we want to force configuration options to the 
command line so that it's obvious someone put them there for a reason, 
rather than something hidden in the environment secretly changing 
things. For this issue I'm not sure which would be the best solution. It 
could use some discussion.

/Erik


On 2013-01-14 01:32, David Chase wrote:
> On 2013-01-13, at 7:17 PM, David Holmes<david.holmes at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I could be mistaken but I thought the use of CXX= was intended as a make variable to override the value that configure places in the spec.gmk file - not as a way to force configure to output something to spec.gmk.
> It's entirely likely that I misunderstood, but I think the output of "sh ./configure -help"
> could be made less ambiguous.  I would ordinarily expect "make help" to inform me of
> relevant EVs for running make.
> --------------
> Running generated-configure.sh
> `configure' configures OpenJDK jdk8 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
>
> Usage: ./common/autoconf/configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
>
> To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as
> VAR=VALUE.  See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables.
> ...
> (below)
> Some influential environment variables:
>    PKG_CONFIG  path to pkg-config utility
>    CC          C compiler command
>    CFLAGS      C compiler flags
>    LDFLAGS     linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir>  if you have libraries in a
>                nonstandard directory<lib dir>
>    LIBS        libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l<library>
>    CPPFLAGS    (Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir>  if
>                you have headers in a nonstandard directory<include dir>
>    CXX         C++ compiler command
>    CXXFLAGS    C++ compiler flags
>    OBJC        Objective C compiler command
>    OBJCFLAGS   Objective C compiler flags
>    CPP         C preprocessor
>    CXXCPP      C++ preprocessor
>    XMKMF       Path to xmkmf, Makefile generator for X Window System
>    FREETYPE2_CFLAGS
>                C compiler flags for FREETYPE2, overriding pkg-config
>    FREETYPE2_LIBS
>                linker flags for FREETYPE2, overriding pkg-config
>    ALSA_CFLAGS C compiler flags for ALSA, overriding pkg-config
>    ALSA_LIBS   linker flags for ALSA, overriding pkg-config
>
> Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help
> it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations.
> --------------
>